June 13th, 2008
(Celebrating 26 Anniversary)- Cosmos held their nerves and stamina
under the sweltering ninety-eight degrees temperature to salvage a
thrilling last ball tie against Lucas last Sunday at Floyd Bennett
field and virtually save themselves from what would have been a major
set back.

Leikram
Latchman

A total
lack of application from Cosmos batsmen left their team gasping after
they raced to 47 for 1 in only six overs. Suddenly a forced cut to
point, a miscued pull to mid-on, a drive to mid-off, a swipe to silly
'somewhere' and the scoreboard reads 53 for 4 off 7 overs. It was
left to the inexperience Leikram Latchman and Sham Ali to repair the
inning.

Latchman showed undue patience in a crucial fifth wicket partnership
of 47 runs with Sham, and then another 36 runs partnership with captain
Ricky Kissoon before he was out for 26. With the score on 133 for
7, Ricky and Mohan Kissoon combined for vital eight-wicket partnership
of 37 runs before Cosmos innings closed on 179 all out. N. Whittaker
took 3 for 28, and D. Waugh 2 for 21.

Lucas's, in reply, showed their intentions very early
that they will take the challenge to the cosmos bowlers, and they
did as they raced to 55 for 1 in only 7 overs. Ricky and Dominic Gomes
managed to curb the flow of runs while picking up two wickets each.
Cosmos fought hard to gain control of the match, which kept slipping
at regular intervals. However, with the score on 179 for nine, Lucas
required a dot ball or one run to win. It took the last ball of the
match when Shafiq Jadavji uprooted the mid stump of E. White for Cosmos
to breath some relief after a dreadful day in the field.